The Price of Admission: Rethinking How Americans Pay for College
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (581 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0815750137 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Price" is worth the price "Price of Admission" is a book to read along with McPherson and Schapiro's "The Student Aid Game." Together they make up a two volume library on federal higher education policy the likes of which could not be collected in a hundred lesser titles.Thomas Kane writes four easy-reading chapters on "How We Pay for College," "Rising Costs in Higher Education," "Has Financial Aid Policy Suc
" —Michael McPherson, Macalester College. " —Clark Kerr, Dean, President Emeritus University of California"The American way of paying for college is in trouble. Olivas, Journal of Higher Education, 9/1/2002"Kane provides compelling evidence that American higher education finance is in trouble. " —Thomas H. "Kane has a great command of the facts regarding admissions and financial aid, and he offers suggestions for changes that respond to changing conditions in the economy and higher education. Kane also contributes to a better understanding
He analyzes how far we have come in ensuring access to all. Kane evaluates alternative explanations for the rise in public and private college costs--weighing the role of federal financial aid policy, higher input costs, and competitive pressures on individual colleges. This book begins with an overview of the many indirect ways in which Americans pay for college--as taxpayers, students, and parents--and describes the sometimes perverse ways in which state and federal financial aid policies interact. For example, he advocates "front-loading" the Pell grant program, limiting eligibility to those in their first two years of college, and providing a larger share of federal subsidies by assessing student resources after college rather than evaluating a single year of parents income and assets before college. Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation. Thomas J. Evidence suggests that large differences in college enrollment remain between high and low income students, even those with similar test scores and attending the same high schools. As a result,
Kane is associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School og Government at Harvard University. Thomas J. Previously, he was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and served as the senior staff economist for labor, education, and welfare issues at President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers.